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The 2010 graded stakes schedule of major North American races concludes Monday with the San Gabriel Stakes at Santa Anita. Over the next week, many Eclipse Awards voters will be grappling with the selection of human and equine champions to be honored at the 40th Annual Eclipse Awards Dinner on January 17, 2011, at the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach, ...

Our Mims Retirement Haven is a pretty incredible place that is bursting at the seams with retired mares that have excelled either on the track, as broodmares, or simply with their shining personalities. I thought it was definitely time that I highlight some of these ladies' stories as well as the selfless and dedicated organization which they ...

This year was an exciting one in Thoroughbred racing, pedigrees, and breeding. Now with 2010 winding down, let's take a look back at the year's most popular topics on TrueNicks.com. The following blog posts are a group of our most popular posts by comments and unique page views. We hope you'll enjoy the 2010 recap, and please suggest any ideas for ...

By J. Keeler Johnson The Great Race Place has long been known for its great races and its very fast racing surface. For the first seventy-four years of its existence, Santa Anita Park had a main track consisting of good old-fashioned dirt. However, the sudden rise of the synthetic tracks changed all of this. In 2006, the California Horse ...

Zenyatta’s California connections came to visit on Dec. 20 at Lane’s End Farm near Versailles, Ky.  Zenyatta responded to all of her visitors and especially groom Mario Espinoza and trainer John Shirreffs who spent so much time with the champion during her racing career. Zenyatta buddied right up to Espinoza and rubbed her head on him when he ...

 (Originally published in the December 25, 2010 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)  By Lenny ShulmanAfter racing primarily in California in 2009, she crisscrossed the country in 2010 racing an ambitious schedule mandated by her owners and thrilling ...

It’s pretty clear that Indian Charlie (TrueNicks,SRO)’s son Uncle Mo is going to head the Experimental Free Handicap and carry off the Eclipse Awad for Champion Two-Year-Old. However, it may well be that the second top-rated juvenile of the year will be another Indian Charlie line horse in the shape of Comma to the Top, a son of Bwana ...

It's always fun to track the racing fortunes of expensive sale yearlings to see if they are able to live up competitively to their impressive purchase prices. Some of this year's auction ring stars already have been named, so keep watch for the following monikers  in the racing entries in 2011: Mr. Besilu, Global Response, Point Cadet, and ...

The following essay by retired Quebec English teacher Abigail Anderson was written in response to my last blog on Zenyatta. Although it is quite long, it is so brilliantly written and researched I felt it should be shared it with everyone.By Abigail Anderson''Nostalgia is like grammar, you find the present in the past perfect.''(Unknown)I have ...